Susan Salidor :: Sharing a Vision Conference Handout 2009

Sharing a Vision Conference Handout 2009

Hello SAV Workshop Participants! This is where you’ll find everything you need regarding lyrics, composer credits, CD sites for specific songs, and my contact information. Please let me know if I’ve missed anything. Thanks for taking my workshop. I hope we can make music together in the future!

COME AND MAKE A CIRCLE – TERRIFIC TUNES FOR TEACHERS

THE BASICS: The Wheels On the Bus -The Beautiful Voice and an Affirmation – The Rules – Body Warmup: “Do Re Mi” – 3 Easy Musical Concepts: /Rhythm, Pitch, Dynamics

LET’S SING!

Come and make a circle, a circle, a circle; Come and make a circle with a friend on each side

Cause you’re my friend and you’re my friend, you’re my friend and you’re my friend

Come and make a circle with a friend on each side. (Repeat with “Look” in place of “Come”)

Hello, hello, I like to say hello

Hello, hello, it’s fun to say hello

Hello, we must make time to say hello – Watcha been doing, what’s cookin’,

What’s up, what’s new and how are you?

Everybody has a name, with this name you can play a game

In this game we’ll sing a song, come sing along:

Me llamo Susana, me llamo Susana, me llamo Susana – my name is Susan!

Te llamas Susana, te llamas Susana, te llamas Susana — your name is Susan!

(Replace Susana with child’s name, your name, etc.)

Shoofly (African-American, CMC)

Shoofly, don’t bother me! (3x)

Cause I belong to somebody.

(4x) I feel, I feel, I feel, I feel like rainy day (happy song, funny dance)

I love my sister, and she loves me; when I look in her eyes, it’s me I see

She makes me laugh even when I want to cry; I love my sister, and that’s no lie!

(Replace “sister” with mother, father, dog, fish, grandma, cousin, etc.)

FAVORITE FINGERPLAYS

When I Was a Little Fish (African-American; on my CMC) Mommy/Daddy will come back later…

When I was a little fish, little fish, little fish, when I was a little fish, swimming in the water.

My momma come and get me, get me, get me, my momma come and get me and carry me home. Ha ha this-a-way, ha ha that-a-way, ha ha this-a-way, carry me home.

First you take a seed and you plant it in the ground; Next a rain cloud comes and waters all around; Then the sun shines brightly without a sound; And in just a few days…. a flower is found!

This one is too long to include here, but these are some of the rhymes I like to use:

hill/Jack, Jill; cloud/soft, loud; flower/sweet, sour; dad/happy, sad; toe/fast, slow;

toe/high, low; gate/early, late; pot/cold, hot; cup/down, up

Five Little Witches (Adapted by S. Salidor) Start with your fingers, then supersize!

Five little witches sitting on a fence; The first one said “Oh my, it’s getting tense!”

The second one said “Does my black hat look alright?”

The third one said “Oh yes, it’s quite a sight!”

The fourth one said “Are those goblins that I hear?”

The fifth one said “The bewitching hour’s near.”

Ooooooo went the wind and out (clap) went the lights and the five little witches flew into the night.

Piling Up the Pumpkins Great fall fingerplay. Substitute apples, blueberries and any suggestion from your students. Have them pantomime holding the blueberry or the apple and let them use their imagination as they stack them high.

Piling up the pumpkins, piling them so high…

We mix them up and mix them up and make a pumpkin pie! (clap)

RHYTHM & RHYME

Tap your toe and follow me (3X) Follow me and tap your toe.

Then we can sway from side to side, we can sway from side

We can sway from side to side; tap your toe and follow me!

(Replace underlined words with: Bob your head, clap your hands, knock your knees)

John The Rabbit (African-American, CMC) A rhythmic call & response song

Oh, John the rabbit (yes ma’am) had a might habit (yes ma’am) jumping in my garden (yes ma’am) cutting down my cabbage (yes ma’am) my sweet potato (yes ma’am) my fresh tomato (yes ma’am) and if I live (yes ma’am) to see next fall (yes ma’am) I ain’t gonna have (yes ma’am) NO GARDEN AT ALL! (NO MA’AM!)

SONGS THAT TEACH

One Little Hanukah Candle (S. Salidor ©2005 CMC2) Easy holiday counting song. Try “supersizing” by asking 9 children to be the 8 candles of the menorah and one to be the “shamash” or helper candle that lights each candle. Hands over head like a flickering flame, or children can hold cut out flames of gold paper.

One little Hanukah candle shining bright, one for the first Hanukah night

Two little Hanukah candles shining bright, two for the second Hanukah night…

(Replace underlined words with next number up through 8.)

(2x) I’ve got peace, peace, peace in my fingers – watch what I can do!

I’ve got peace, peace, peace in my fingers, I’m gonna shake hands with you.

(2x) I’ve got words, words, words in my head – watch what I can do!

I’ve got words, words, words in my head, I’m gonna talk things over with you.

(2x) I’ve got love, love, love in my heart – watch what I can do!

It’s bound to happen every four weeks or so, a new one came around about thirty days ago

Here’s a jig to help you dig the months and all twelve of ‘em

Come and sing along with me, I know you’ll learn to love ‘em.

Oh… *January, February, March, April, May

June, July and August – What do you say? Well I say…

September, October, November, too!

And don’t forget December, now sing them through…*

LET’S DANCE

Over the Deep Blue Sea (a/k/a The Pirate Song, traditional, CMC) Movement, music, & #s

When I was one I had some fun on the day I went to sea

I jumped aboard a pirate ship and the captain said to me

He said “Go this way, that way, forward, backward, and over the deep blue sea!”

Two = tie my shoe; three = skin my knee; four = slam the door; five = learn to drive; six = pick up sticks; seven = look up at heaven; eight = learn to skate; nine = fish with a line; ten = jump around like a hen.

Here’s a little bird, she’s hatching from her shell, first comes her head, and then comes her tail, now her legs she stretches, her wings she gives a flap, now she’s in the sky, oh what do you think of that? Down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down – BOOM!

OLD FAVORITES

You probably know all the verses, so here’s the last verse which I added:

If you had a lamb (3x) you’d love it, too

If you had a lamb you’d love it, too, mmmmmmm.

TIME TO END

Adi adi adi adi adi adios! Adi up a high, adi down a los

Adi from your ears way down into your toes, singing adi adi adi adios!

Bonus Songs: I Am Here, We’re Building a Better World (Peter and Ellen Allard); Head & Shoulders Baby (B. Dooley); Everybody Have a Seat; Mi Cuerpo; As I Was Walking London Hill

Thanks so much for taking my workshop today. I hope you have learned lots of new material to take back to the classroom and share with your colleagues. Almost all of these songs (except for the Bonus Songs) are available on my CDs “Come and Make a Circle: Twenty Terrific Tunes for Kids and Teacher,” a Parents’ Choice Gold Award, Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award and NAPPA winner, and my new release, “Come and Make a Circle 2: More Terrific Tunes for Kids, Teachers and Families,” a Parents’ Choice Award and NAPPA Award winner @ www.susansalidor.com, CDBaby.com, and Amazon.com. I’d love to come to your school for a concert. Just give me a call at 773-271-5568 or drop me an email at ssalidor@aol.com. Remember: You have a beautiful voice and I like to hear you sing!

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Sharing a Vision Conference Handout 2009